Overview
What is the Strings Family?
This string instrument is the largest and has lowest pitch
What is double bass?
What is a piccolo?
Two types of valves
what are piston and rotary?
You crash these
What are crash cymbals?
Piccolo, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon
WHat is the woodwind family?
This Strings Instrument is played with a bow and is higher than the viola
What is the violin?
Bassoonists sit on this to hold their instrument
What is a seat strap?
This instrument uses a slide
What is a trombone?
Made of wooden bars, pitched
What is a xylophone?
Trumpet, Trombone, Horn, and Tuba
What is the brass family?
The bow used in string instruments is typically made of?
the top joint on the clarinet
This instrument is NOT FRENCH
What is Horn?
You use these to strike pitched instruments
What are mallets?
Snare, Bass, Xylophone, Cymbals
What is the percussion family?
Viola plays in this clef
What is alto clef?
The metal piece on a bassoon that holds the reed
What is a bocal?
You use this to smooth out stuck valves
What is valve oil?
the tone, "color" of an instrument or instruments that distinguishes them
Name a famous composer who is a virtuosic violinist
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
This famous composer wrote for clarinet
Who is Mozart?
What are partials?